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From his earliest days roaming corporate corridors, Cardinal Health CFO Aaron Alt has benefited from what evades most finance career-builders for decades: boardroom access. How does an executive with a non-traditional background, like Aaron Alt's journey from law to CFO, impact the strategic direction and problem-solving approaches within a company? My latest Forbes.com article seeks to examine from whence he came. https://lnkd.in/eih2KRTF

Does your CFO merely jot down notes, or do they actively question your executive team? Now, try to identify which approach signals a warning, as pointed out by Flg Faucet Company Partners. Dive into the newest insights from my colleague @Anne Samak de la Cerda. https://gag.gl/d2rki1 #CFOLeadership #CEOInsights #FinanceTeams

EP50: Nurture Trust to Align Imperfect Decisions https://ift.tt/gkKThFb Deborah Fell unpacks key insights on gaining alignment from her conversation with Torey Carter-Conneen, CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects. With multiple stakeholders to consider, Torey shares how he approaches creating change and uniting his team behind a common vision. Deborah reflects on how a lack of alignment in an organization, though often invisible, manifests in lower scores and sales momentum. Torey stresses the "trust equation" - communicating the why behind decisions while listening carefully to staff and members. For CEOs leading their teams through change, this commentary offers takeaways on fostering trust and strategic alignment. Tune in to hear Torey's advice on maintaining focus amidst competing priorities. About Torey Carter-Conneen An accomplished executive leader with over 20 years of experience, Torey Carter Conneen formulates strategies and plans to drive organizational success. As COO of AILA, he oversees operations, education, conferences, publications, finance, and more to support the 15,000+ immigration attorney members. He led the development of strategic and operating plans and ensured accountability against goals. As SVP, Finance, and CFO at the Center for American Progress, he oversaw accounting, administration, and IT for the $50M organization and advised the President & CEO as part of the executive team. As Acting President & CEO of the Victory Fund and Institute, he partnered with leaders and the Board on strategic, operating, and financial plans during the CEO’s sabbatical. He excels at managing deadlines and challenges while delivering immediate results. Skilled at cultivating engaging work environments to promote performance excellence. via Success Beneath the Surface https://ift.tt/qwbrSZO

Our stellar ☀ Southeast Florida #CFO Partners, Barry Brover, Marylean Abney, and Nathan Lawless are a powerhouse in the South - and beyond. Although our partners cover all territories in Florida at The Florida CFO Group, we serve clients throughout the country. 🏙 When you hire ONE of us, you get ALL of us. 👨💼 👩💼 👨💼 👩💼 Our #collaboration among #executives in a variety of industries and specialties is unparalleled. That's the beauty of our group. There's always backup, diverse perspectives, new ideas, and second-third-fourth opinions to ensure the strategy is on point for a specific business type or goal to reach. From #raisingcapital to #retail strategies - our CFOs have you covered. Barry Brover has more than 30 years of experience, most notably with Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. He is #resultsdriven and operationally-centered. His financial #leadership contributed to the significant revenue growth of $125 million to over $2 billion at Barnes & Noble. Barry focused on free cash flow, organic growth, and acquisitions. He developed solutions to problems focused on improving profitability. He also developed financial models, led diligence, and integration, ultimately leading the sale of the company at a strong multiple with the continued integration into a public company. Barry's Profile and Contact Information: https://lnkd.in/dpaqxQwd Nathan Lawless is a growth guru. He is passionate about scaling organizations and building enterprise value. Nathan is an executive leader with a strategic mindset focused on analysis and capital planning. He is operationally focused, aligning sales, operations, and support with key performance indicators. Nathan uses his expertise in technology and data to position companies for profitability. https://lnkd.in/gzW5sNdJ Marylean Abney spent over three decades with Caterpillar Inc. where she drove a $3 billion improvement in economic profit thanks to her expertise in categorizing product offerings into four profit/loss quadrants, better allocating resources, and establishing clear metrics of success. She is decisive and efficient and focuses on results. Marylean's vast experience ranges from billion-dollar public companies to small and medium-sized businesses. Her knowledge of ERP systems, supply chain management, cost reduction strategies, and cashflow improvement strategies serves as a major asset to clients and to the group overall. https://lnkd.in/eumGcDmv #southeast #miami #ftlauderdale #westpalmbeach #delraybeach #tamarac #cashflow #operations #cfoservices #cfocommunity #fractionalcfo #revenuegrowth #acquisitions #profitability #financialmodeling #duediligence #integration #sale #smallbusinessowner #ceos #executiveleadership #strategy #strategicpartners #publiccompanies #multiple

Around this time yesterday I wrapped up the CFO Magazine A/NZ Sydney CFO Symposium. I've been involved with the symposiums for a few years now (since 2018 actually) but this was the first time I had the privilege to be the symposium MC for the entire event! Having had the opportunity when I was in practice to help share the experience & wisdom of the industry leaders with the wider practitioner community, the chance to do it again now in the corporate space was one I could not pass up. As usual, a fair level of anxiety and imposter syndrome crept in, especially the night before. But I need not stress as I reminded myself that onstage with me during the day was going to be some very smart finance and business leaders who I literally just need to ask the questions of and allow them to share their wisdom and experience with the audience. And they did that in an awesome way! Through the CFO Lens > Towards 2030 was the theme and during the day we heard from an amazing lineup of speakers, covering everything from CFO priorities in 2024, to Ai, to people engagement and how to manage the CFO/Board relationship, just to name a few areas discussed. On reflection, the three key themes of the day were; 1. Collaboration between finance departments and the rest of the business continues to increase in importance to ensure whole of business success 2. Investing in building up your knowledge of and harnessing the power of Ai to allow it to allow you to do your best work is something you need to take seriously. No, you won't lose your job if you are slow to adopt it, but to continue to stay ahead, you need to understand and embrace its abilities as another epic tool in your toolbox (much like the cloud did 10 years ago) 3. People engagement continues to be a top priority for finance leaders and not just in their own teams. The finance leaders spoke about how the health and wellbeing of ALL the people in their respective businesses keeps them up at night (along with cashflow !). Employer Net Promoter Score (ENPS) was becoming an increasingly important metric to track with their businesses as they agreed that an engaged and productive (and happy) workforce was a key element to ensure success in 2024 and viewed it as key competitive advantage. Investment in this space was on the cards for 2024 to ensure they did not lose great people and suffer the cost of replacement hires and the lost productivity in the process. Overall, it was a fantastic day and one I thoroughly enjoyed. If you are in Melb, be sure to register for the VIC CFO Symposium coming up on Feb 22 ! Finally, many thanks to all of the awesome speakers from yesterday. You were the stars of the show. Tim Howard Renee Duffy Santo Ahmed Alena Bennett Rafael Pasquet (below in the pic) Syed Ali Shirley Riddick John Wise Scott Wiltshire Krishna T. Cyril Desouza James Haslam Kate Wilkinson Kim Jeanneret Jon Brett Karina Kouroutzoglou Mitchell Koureas Richard McBride Nick Abrahams

📣 Shout out to Consulting.us for their coverage of our recent launch, and for recognizing our visionary CEO Tim Brackney. This article perfectly encapsulates our mission and the exciting path ahead. Let's keep redefining the future of business advisory together! 🤝 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eaGpNHCB #accountingservices #advisoryservices #ScaleforGood

An excellent piece about becoming a CFO, how to fill the role and eventually also exit from it. Here is, what it takes: ✅ formulating a unique vision for the role ✅ finding the right set of sponsors ✅ bolstering skills in the areas that matter most to the organization ✅ taking professional risks to broaden experience ✅ and seeking opportunities to engage with the board. How many boxes do you tick?

Does the “profitability focus” mandate you gave to your portco’s management team seem to be stalled? Say you acquire a company that has a lot of embedded value but just can’t seem to get out of their own way - you know you need to make some changes in management or core operating frameworks, but you probably start by seeing if the current management team can get there. Perhaps you have a CFO or FP&A team who even identified the areas that require focus and attention from management - maybe these areas are the foundation for the company’s “path to profitability” you need to execute on as the new owners. Initially, you probably get heavy push-back and “this is the way we’ve always done it” conversations from the existing team. I’ve seen existing CEOs shoot down legitimate cost optimizations and profitability enhancement ideas with these excuses: 👉 We don’t have too many people on staff, we actually need more people to grow 👉 We need to take risks and spend more on new initiatives to grow our of our current unprofitable cycle 👉 Changing the structure of the business will impact morale and go against core company ethos Remember, optimizing portcos post-acquisition isn’t a finance-executed process. Funds that look only to their CFOs for guidance on why the company is or is not meeting their new profitability goals might get appropriate answers… But finance leaders don’t operate the business. The reason your “path to profitability” project might be stalled is because you may have an execution issue with your CEO and/or COO. __________________________ Want to learn more? Follow me on Medium (link in comments and in Feature) ✌️ 🖊️

I want to give a warm welcome to our new CFO Mark Satisky who joins us with an impressive background in leading high-growth tech and services organizations. Welcome to North Highland! 👋 Learn more about Mark in the press release: #FinancialLeadership

As Guidehealth recently celebrated a milestone, I wrote about our company-wide high performance culture imperative, ensuring better healthcare while we grow sustainably, profitably, and responsibly. Our model’s lowest industry-benchmarked costs produces sustainably higher margin growth that’s disproportionately shared with customers, and only achieved through high performance and execution focus. Like the real-estate mantra goes - - ‘Location’ x 3, ours is unwaveringly ‘Performance’ x 3! We are doubling down on this strategic performance focus and doubly thrilled to appoint two terrific and experienced executive leaders with Robert Alterman as Chief Performance Officer, and Roger Ou who plans to join us as company Chief Financial Officer. I won’t repeat what’s in the press release but I saw first hand how Rob developed KPI frameworks and performance models in his many portfolio roles at McKinsey & Company. Similarly, I’ve been deeply impressed with Roger’s strategic and deeply analytical lens to healthcare finance. His reputation for hard work and collegiality at CareMax, Inc. is exemplar. Together with others on this executive team, we are applying advanced technology and data-science, low-cost scalable operations, and our KLAS Research #1 ranked delegated services to redefine costs, quality and clinical outcomes that drives high performance x 3 for our customers and their patients. https://lnkd.in/eJfBxdWU Michael Gleeson, MARK SELNA, Marion Couch, Jeanne Wisniewski, ACC, Katie (Boswell) Turner, MAcc, CPA, Laura Begg MS, ICF ACC, McKay Crowley, MD, Patricia Rushman, Rick Brown, John Perry, Michael Simon, Tom Tran, Steven Strongwater, Michael Meucci, Loretta Keane, Aneesh Chopra, Feby Abraham, Sidd Pagidipati, Eric Larsen, Gaurov Dayal, M.D., Nick Patel M.D. , Jayadeva (Jay) chowdappa, M.D.